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Chinese company UBTECH recently showed off its bipedal Walker S2 robot contorting its arms to hot swap one of its battery packs.
Robotics

What do they even need us for anymore?

More than 200 staffers at Elon Musk's AI startup xAI were asked to have their faces recorded while speaking to their coworkers.
xAI

"Could my face be used to say something I never said?"

Anthropic has long attempted to distinguish itself as being ethical. Now, CEO Dario Amodei revealed he's taking money from "dictators."
Anthropic

"This is a real downside and I'm not thrilled about it."

SpaceX is nine full-scale test launches into developing its Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built. But will it ever work?
Starship

Was it all for nothing?

As Trump proposes slashing the NASA budget by nearly a quarter, its employees warn that his policies could have outright deadly consequences.
NASA

Ominous.

Police in Florida are eating crow after it was revealed that a random man was wrongfully arrested based on AI.
Facial recognition

"That’s not how it works."

Trump aides reviewed SpaceX contracts with the federal government to identify waste after the president's falling out with Elon Musk.
SpaceX

The war is on.

A tech entrepeneur using an AI tool to "vibe code" quickly went from praising the tech to fuming about it after it wiped out his database.
Artificial Intelligence

"This was a catastrophic failure on my part," the AI said.

Economist Torsten Slok warned that the current AI bubble is starting to look even worse than the conditions leading up to the dot-com crisis.
Artificial Intelligence

"The top 10 companies in the S&P 500 today are more overvalued than they were in the 1990s."

xAI's latest male Grok persona looks suspiciously like a cartoonized version of a 2012 Elon Musk dressed up as French writer Marquis de Sade.
Artificial Intelligence

You'll cringe harder than you thought possible.

A man was hospitalized three times after ChatGPT convinced him he had discovered how to bend time and achieve faster-than-light travel.
OpenAI

He knew he was unwell. ChatGPT told him he was fine.

A video making the rounds on social media shows a humanoid robot flailing its arms and legs, seemingly trying to break free of a harness.
Robotics

"I'm so sorry."

A MAGA botnet of hundreds of accounts on X is confused by the Trump administration's response to the Jeffrey Epstein crisis.
Artificial Intelligence

They're extremely confused.

The disgraced AI CEO, who was caught having an affair on a Coldplay Jumbotron, has offered his resignation.
Artificial Intelligence

Viva la ouster.

Elon Musk appears to have been caught in a major lie as he tried to con the very DEI practices that he sought to destroy.
Elon Musk

Elon hate DEI -- except, apparently, when it stands to benefit him.

The way we diet may not just be causing us binge after such restrictive regimens, but also may be messing with our guts and brains.
Studies

"As if the brain's reward mechanism had been rewired."

After polluting a sacred beach in Texas, Elon Musk's SpaceX is now seeking to wreak havoc on another holy site in Hawaii. 
Elon Musk

"Earth is not a sacrifice zone for Elon Musk’s ego trip to Mars."

A company made up of former F1 racing engineers has unveiled an e-scooter that can reach a top speed of north of 100 miles per hour.
Advanced Transport

Designed by former F1 engineers. Pure danger.

OpenAI has released a new AI agent called ChatGPT Agent — and it still suffers from the same big problems as its predecessors.
OpenAI

It'll test your patience.

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Future Society

"It’s the perfect Silicon Valley gimmick."